As a newbie's experiment in choreography I'm attempting to deconstruct Tito Puente's Mon Ti (I'd post a youtube link, but the forum won't let me) and base my shines off the hits, especially the big timbale hits (they are timbales, right?). But I'm having trouble deconstructing the rhythms precisely enough to tell what counts they're on. For instance, during the two-ish bars after 0:10, with the extended sequence of evenly spaced hits - what precisely is the spacing between them? What counts do they occur on? Can I expect all the hits in the song to occur either on triplet counts or on eighth/sixteenth counts?
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.